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Iris rhizomes have use in the medical and perfume industry: https://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/i/irises08.htmlCatie George wrote:All but the columbine and iris are edible, and they look quite nice together.
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Catie George wrote:
Sionnain - I would love to see your variegated tomatos!!! What is the variety name?
Skandi- the cardoons are lovely! I am considering trying artichokes here as an annual, they are marginal and need a lot of care but I love the taste...
Sionainn Cailís wrote:
Catie George wrote:
Sionnain - I would love to see your variegated tomatos!!! What is the variety name?
Skandi- the cardoons are lovely! I am considering trying artichokes here as an annual, they are marginal and need a lot of care but I love the taste...
They are supposedly Irish tomatoes. :)
I have no idea if they have a specific title, only that I managed to get a little bunch of seeds. To the best of my (probably deeply flawed and incomplete) knowledge, Ireland is the home of the only variegated leaf tomatoes. One of those things I could probably research further.
Also to note is that the variegated pattern isn't consistent on all leaves, and apparently comes out more in cooler weather. Something that probably would have been more prominent in a normal year, but this year is abnormally hot.
In the south when the wind gets to 75 mph they give it a name and call it a hurricane. Here we call it a mite windy...
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Heather Staas wrote:Sochan is right up there. Earliest productive spring green and then loads of very tall yellow coneflowers.
Sally Munoz wrote:We snack on black locust flowers and while someone told me they were toxic, I haven't observed any ill effects.
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I only recently learned that these are edible and haven't found a lot of info (but I agree they're a beautiful spring plant - not just the flowers, but the leaves are really pretty to my eyes).Fawn Lily (bulbs)
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Jay Angler wrote:C Lundquist wrote:
I only recently learned that these are edible and haven't found a lot of info (but I agree they're a beautiful spring plant - not just the flowers, but the leaves are really pretty to my eyes).Fawn Lily (bulbs)
1. Do you know if they divide like tulips will, or does each bulb start from a seed?
2. How fast do they multiply for you?
3. Do you know if they're groupies? I want to transplant some to near some apple trees I planted. Do you have any idea if I just plant one bulb here and there around a tree if they'd do better or worse than planting them in little clumps?
4. Do you have any suggestions of what might help them transplant best?
The ones I'm going to try taking bulbs from have been gradually spreading in a semi-wild area of our property for some time. I specifically marked some spots where I think the density is thick enough that I won't harm Mother Nature if I remove a few bulbs to experiment with. It's important for people to give Mother Nature a helping hand and not destroy wild plots she's been working on for years. This is why I want to try to spread the bulbs to a slightly disturbed area with other human-planted plants, but to do so with caution.
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Joylynn Hardesty wrote:
Sally Munoz wrote:We snack on black locust flowers and while someone told me they were toxic, I haven't observed any ill effects.
For your infomer's info, the flowers are edible. Read more here.
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Anita Martin wrote:
Apart from the edible flowers mentioned already I think most of my vegetables are beautiful - as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder I just have to think how good they will taste and they instantly become very attractive to me!
As to the question, I am partial to pretty tomatoes. I collect special varieties, often the multi-coloured ones. Artichokes are also so beautiful! Tatsoi is stunning, but my rosettes are not as perfect because the slugs just love all brassicas.
Anita Martin wrote:
As an innocent European I thought the topic was only about pretty edibles and not ones you could sneak into your flowerbeds because where I live there is no need to sneak anything anywhere. Of course I get that you might want to mix something unexpected into your ornamentals ;-)
Apart from the edible flowers mentioned already I think most of my vegetables are beautiful - as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder I just have to think how good they will taste and they instantly become very attractive to me!
In the south when the wind gets to 75 mph they give it a name and call it a hurricane. Here we call it a mite windy...
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C Lundquist wrote:I don't think of sneaking anything anywhere either, I just pick useful plants. If they're perennial, they go in my "flower" beds. A lot of ornamental plants have uses too and sometimes you just need to research plants that are already growing. Most of my perennial beds are just randomly planted, but I do have a rainbow garden which I arrange by color, but even there 90% of the plants have a use.
Dorothy Pohorelow wrote:
We are not just talking about plants we can sneak past an HOA or other over reaching organization/gov. Some of us want a source of food that most folks in our area would think are just pretty plants... if we make them look like "normal" landscaping or flower gardens they are less likely to be raided by hungry people. I just planted seeds in a beautiful purple grow bag. I put in Rainbow Chard, Bullsblood Beets, carrots, shallots, and a version of Lacinato kale that has a lot of colors. If all goes as planned that bag will be full of colorful foliage in different shapes and textures making it look like a wild riot of color to most folk but will be a nice source of salad greens for us.
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Anita Martin wrote:
As regards to sneaking for other reasons: I am not afraid of raiding people, for several reasons. Not even in the pandemic have we encountered any food shortages. Supply is good, we have local producers, and before things turn nasty I guess many more people would turn to gardening (many single family homes with gardens around here). People who are knowledgeable would start a garden. And then there are people who would not know how vegetables look like in unprocessed shape (or how to prepare them for eating) - no need to be afraid of those!...
...I am very intrigued about my chinese "the thief won't take them" tomatoes which I had mentioned before (I got the seeds from my chinese SIL). They remain grean like an unripe tomato (not like a green zebra, but paler). I have six little plants this year and might expand if necessary!
Anita Martin wrote:
As an innocent European I thought the topic was only about pretty edibles and not ones you could sneak into your flowerbeds because where I live there is no need to sneak anything anywhere. Of course I get that you might want to mix something unexpected into your ornamentals ;-)
Apart from the edible flowers mentioned already I think most of my vegetables are beautiful - as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder I just have to think how good they will taste and they instantly become very attractive to me!
Jenny Wright wrote:
Nice, do you have a picture of your rainbow garden?
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C Lundquist wrote:
Jenny Wright wrote:
Nice, do you have a picture of your rainbow garden?
Here's a collage I made of the colors. There are many more plants than this but this is a sampling.
White: thyme
Pink: rock soapwort (makes a soap)
Red/orange: roses, edible and perfume
Yellow: native cinquefoil species
Green: wild ginger, edible root
Turquoise: lambs ear, medicinal and the kids love it
Blue: lithodora, just for the unusual flower color
Purple: Iris, dye plant
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